Satellite image from 26 June 2:05PM CDT displaying the oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon incident. Source: Modis
ASA is supporting NOAA’s oil spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) team of the Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) and is coordinating with NOAA on environmental, chemical and biological data collection.
- Potential Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
- Satellite Images Displaying Oil Slick
- General Behavior and Fate of Oil
- Biological Impacts of Spills
- Socioeconomic Impacts of Spills
- Natural Resource Damage Assessment Process
- Previous Spills as Case Examples
- Senate Hearings for Response Efforts to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Links that provide information about the BP oil spill:
- Deepwater Horizon Response
- Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA) for the Gulf of Mexico
- NOAA's Incident News
- ESRI Gulf Oil Spill Response
- Live Webcam of Release (Select Committee website)
- Live Webcam of Release (BP website)
- Tracking the Oil Spill (NY Times Article)
- Oil Spill Maps and Graphics (BBC News Article)
- UM Rosenstiel School’s Numerical Models
- EPA’s Response to the Spill
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Study
- BP Gulf of Mexico Response
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